Welcome to a new week and a new challenge at Eureka Stamps! This week we're going vintage, and since I'm in the middle of canning season, I'm thinking canning jars.

I'm using a QKR image- Jar and Apples. Watercolors and some Glossy Accents on the jar. Burlap, eyelets, sewing, a bit of inking on the edges and kraft cardstock for the base. Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you'll feel inspired to play along with our vintage/distress challenge this week.

Pinspirational Challenges has a great picture to inspire your masculine card designs this week. I just love that fancy sign! I could see some chalkboard style designs coming out of this one-which is what I originally had in mind with my card, but it didn't quite turn out.

We have three great sponsors this week, and as always, there are prizes up for grabs.

I got to play with some digis from Stamping Dragon for my card. I used both the postcards and vintage car.

I started out by using the wrinkle free distress technique to color the paper I used for my postcard digi. After it was dry, I printed out my image on it. I wanted a real distressed look so I ripped out some of the stitching around the crinkled paper. I thought these little Tim Holtz gears were the perfect accent.

This project came about as something I designed for a GDT post for Through the Craft Room Door. The vintage images I was given to work with are just so sweet...I ended up using all four that they sent me!

Over the years I've seen many candles like this created with images on tissue paper, and I can't believe it took me so long to try the technique...it's super easy! Since this is a digital image I just taped some tissue paper over the printer paper where my image would print and printed it onto the tissue paper. Then you just trim it down, lay the paper on your candle, and lay a piece of waxed paper over the image, heat with a heat gun just to transfer the wax from the waxed paper to the tissue, remove the waxed paper and...Voila! I'm curious to see what happens when the candle is burned...I definitely won't be leaving it unattended and I plan on removing all of the embellishments before lighting it.

For my gift bag I used some glittery red paper for the base, and some pretty embossed felt I had left over from another project-I sewed those two layers together with metallic gold thread. I also used some gold trim and vintage lace and a couple mini brads next to the Christmas Greetings sentiment.